A heart wrenching return to the Kiss Quotient world

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This is the third book in the Kiss Quotient series, and it's the least romantic of the three. That's not to say there's no romance! There is. Anna and Quan have a beautiful development of their relationship, from first meeting through a series of obstacles, and they're very sweet together. After two books of Quan being a support character, it's great to see him come into his own and find his own love story. But that's not the point of this book. The point here is Anna's relationship with her family, with her self, and Quan's self acceptance of who he is after medical issues. Underlying all of these things is Anna's struggle with burnout, which predates the beginning of the novel.

This is a beautiful, heartfelt exploration of autism, the difficulty of caring for elderly or unwell family, burnout, and the strictures of expectations, and how they can chafe. These are all beautifully, emotively written and positively leak off the page and into my heart (then out through my tear ducts!). It's not really a romance though. Or even a romcom. It's beautiful! It's heartfelt. It's utterly tearjerking. It's just not a romcom.